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Originally Posted by JimJast
Why do you think it is expanding at all? The astronomers don't know any reason for this expansion except the pressure from mathematicians to assume such scenario so they have something "scientific" to work on.
The mathematicians keep for themselves the knowledge that if one calculates the redshift in any light in the universe it comes out with the so called Hubble redshift approximately exponentially depending on the distance (which also gives the illusion of accelerating expansion). I'm a little bit tired of this mistification and that's why I wonder why do you believe it and don't just calculate for yourself that the universe is not expanding? It's just a high school math only. Luckily we may tell truth in ATM thread and we won't be fired from our positions as it happened to Halton Arp for publishing his discoveries contradicting the Big Bang  |
I guess I'm just in the "anti-Arp" school of thought on this one, which I think is the mainstream view. To me, the standard model makes sense because I can envisage a hot "explosion" creating space-time, but like a rocket motor, this would give momentum to all objects. It would take billions of years to slow down this initial momentum by the gravity of the universe. Imagine throwing an object upward, it decelerates for a while but is still going up.